Change duration of still clips

Another naive question from a naive user: is there a straightforward way to adjust clips of jpg images? I'm working on creating a slideshow, and would like a way to manually enter in the duration. I've tried doing that with the "duration" dialog, but the changes don't take. Thanks.

You can set the duration automatically in the Preferences dialog box. (But it has to be done before you import the images; changing the duration in the preferences will not affect images that have already been imported.)
OR... you can select your clips in the project panel, before they've been placed in any sequence, and change their duration there.
OR if a clip is already in the timeline, you can place your cursor over the end or start of the clip and click and drag to lengthen/decrease the duration.

Similar Messages

  • Change duration of multiple clips "as one" overall clip?

    Here's my situation:
    I have a song at 127 BPM. I have a music video (muted sound) at 125 BPM.
    I've spent a long time slicing up clips from the video into different channels and muliple clips to form one timeline (but with many clips and channels lined up).
    I now want to change the overall duration of the video clip to match the BPM of the song (which I should have done in the first place), but the video is, as previously stated, sliced up in mulitple clips in multiple channels. How can I change the duration of all clips at one time, where the end and start of the clips still line up to eachother?
    This would've been incredibly easy if there were a un-nesting feature. Where I can nest multiple clips, change the duration, and un-nest the clips to slices clips with a changed overall duration. (Which is not possible. Yes, I can drag the clips out of the nested clip, but the clips will still have the original duration).
    TL;DR: How can I change duration of multiple clips "as one" overall clip?

    Never mind. I've found a alternate solution. I used a time stretch calculator at http://mp3.deepsound.net/eng/samples_calculs.php and time stretched all the clips to match the BPM of the song. Now I only need to snap all the clips, which can be done one by one, but I found this trick to snap all the clips at once: http://vimeo.com/27428526.
    I'll just let this thread stay open so other with the same problem can find this

  • Where to change duration multiple selected clips

    In previous answers I've read if you have selected all clips (Cmnd A) and you want to change duration of all still images you press
    Ctrl D (change duration) but WHERE on the screen do you change it. If I move the playhead it looses its Ctrl D command. I cannot change the seconds in the timer on the timeline either...? Thanks, Pim

    I'm sorry Tom, what is the dashboard. Is it in the middle of the screen above the timeline, with the green numbers (hrs:minutes:seconds:frames). If I do what you suggest these numbers turn out blue (next to the blue numbers the sign of a clip with handlels pop up) but when I try to enter the numner there, or in tne Info screen on the upper right sight where its says Duration, I cannot enter any number. It unselects...?
    Nor in the Timeline a cannot drag one of the sides of one of the selected clips (images).
    So I got stuck after Cmnd-A (select all images), Ctrl-D...
    Regards, Pim

  • Preset or change duration of still photos in iMovie project

    Hi,
    I work with iMovie 11 and never had any problem with previous versions.
    Now I'm doing my first project in iM 11 and it just ignores my requests
    When I set the duration in 'Project Properties' 'Apply to all photos' to e.g. 4 sec it will set the duration anything from 5 to 7 sec and no matter how often I change it will not react. If I set it to 3 sec (as an example) it will allow 5 sec. but never what I would like the duration to be.
    This is a really annoying issue, more so when there a lot of still photos in the project.
    Is there any way to rectify this or what else can I do???
    thl

    "problems setting duration for still photos and transitions in iMovie '11"
    A number of people have experienced the same problem and written about it on discussions. Lots of difference solutions as well. If you search using the title quoted above, you can read the solution I found. It's more complicated than it should be. I've never had to fiddle as much with duration times for transitions and still photos. Nevertheless, the steps I have described work for me. You will also find the steps another reader offered that may work for you if all of your transitions are set for the same durations and all of the still photos are as well.

  • Changing Duration of multiple clips/stills simultaneously.

    I have a boatload of stills that are all at default duration (5:00). I want to change the duration for all of them simultaneously without having to key in each one individually.
    Thanks,
    HB

    How did you do it I try and it always reverts to 9. somthing higher than the default Im ne to macs so any help yopu can give would be great

  • Change duration of multiple clips

    Is there a way to change the duration of multiple still photos at the same time (rather than doing it one-photo-at-a-time), without changing the zoom levels and Ken Burns effect that has been applied to some of the photos?

    O.k, I know what happened with my test project. My photos all had the same zoom setting. My Ken Burns photos all had the same zoom setting as well, a pan from left to right like train cars moving past, that I cribbed from another project to do the test. Since the zoom settings and KB effects were all the same to start with, I couln't tell that they all were being conformed to the settings of the first photo when I changed the duration. Sorry.
    Looks like you'll have to just brew a pot of coffee and start the tedious task. But there might be some groups of photos that have the same zoom levels, and you can use my suggested procedure to change the duration of those as a group.

  • Changing duration after applying motion properties?

    I have a series of still images that I applied scaling and motion to and I now want to change their duration so I right-click, choose Speed/Duration and change the timecode for the duration to make the still image take less time on screen. After doing this the scaling and motion no longer work. Is there a way to change still image duration after applying scaling and motion to them?
    Thanks.

    Looking for some answers (Oh I realise this thread is 1 year old!) about clips duration I bumped into this one. I wonder if part of the above problem had something to do with pictures coming from different cameras - I seemed to notice that with the same preference choice some clips seem to interpret the duration differently? Probably when the aspect ratio is different from one camera to another, or if one has changed his or her aspect ratio on that camera in a shooting session.
    I do remember that to change the duration default via preference it has to be done before importing photos in the project windows or has someone pointed out, re import them after changing the default.,
      I also thought after changing the duration of clips that had key frame for various functions, the new duration may have excluded those key frames because the shortening had truncated the part where the end key frames were,  thus making them void.
    (I'm a little surprised to be in this thread as I had written in the "question" field "still images duration" and was in another thread with 5 entries, the last one from Anne Benz with a shot of a time line, also from Oct 2012! But some how when I tried to add to it, I could not and found for unknown reason I was not signed on! But now I come back signed on with the same question I'm in the different thread?)
    Perhaps the following may be interesting and helpful for some. Changing duration of still in the time line can be quite useful when one needs to match the Video sequence with its added Audio.   As you have a display of stills with transitions, animation etc. and you add some music to it. If they don't quite finish at the desire point. (usually with the end of the music, song). You can fine tune it (like within a few seconds) by shortening or lengthening the clip, clips duration. And if it's ok with what  you have you can select the whole (video)  time line  and after deciding how much is the difference between your portion of music and your clips apply that time. Sometimes using only a few clips is enough other times the whole of it works better.  I find it's ok only for a few seconds though as there are a couple of problem with this, The key frames may need to be readjusted and or even be out of action (as explained earlier) In that case it's probably better to have the video clips on a sequence of their own then add the music on a new sequence and match them this way on the same time line.
    PS: Titles and anything relying in proper timing placement above this video display timeline needs to be checked, perhaps included or adjusted with clip or clips duration change.
    I really was looking at ways of creating a sequence with a variety of animations that I could re used for other project with the "Copy" then "Paste Attributes" in the hope it would be quicker than going back to the "Contor Effect" function all the time. I remember using (MS Movie Maker) and it had a few icons for this purpose that one would apply for a clip. It was rigid but quite effective. This way even if I needed to adjust the key frames, they would already be in place. (I already use this technic with similar pics, I copy one animation I like and "paste attributes to  a bunch of pics, sometimes reverse the key frames, "copy" then select alternate pics from the previous selection and paste the new attributes to them... May be not everyone's taste!
      So if I could import such a sequence in my Projects and place it on Video 2  with each pic. labelled with its appropriate animation and obviously key-framed accordingly. (I would have created a photo folder and renamed each of its photos with one of the desired labels, ie Pan down, Pan left, Zoom in, Rotate %,  etc) - But I thought I hit a snag with the duration....
    I have actually gave this a quick try and it seems to have some value. I just found out that it's worthwhile to get the shortest but meaningful labeling for this "templates" in order to identify them easily in their smallest view (time line zoomed out) ie Pan Left  = PL, PR, PU, Zi, Zo etc.

  • Change Duration of set of still clips

    I'm trying to change the duration of 1,115 still photo clips in the timeline (about 2.2mb jpegs each).  After about 2.5 hours of effort to get them into the timeline I've selected them all and hit control D to highlight the duration thing in the middle of the screen.  I type in 46.45 so that all those clips will play back close to 24fps and it changes to 14 hours.  I tried typing in 2 minutes = 8 hours, then 10 minutes = 8 hours.  I don't get it.  No matter what number I type into the duration it changes by hours.
    Oh yeah, I changed the import setting for still clips to the lowest possible amount of time and it still brought them into the timeline at 4 sec. each.
    Help.  Is there some special way to get the duration to stay what you type into it?
    I know I'm running FCPX on a bare bones system but it really shouldn't take two days to make a 45 second timelapse.
    MacBook Pro Intel core 2 duo 2.4 Ghz, 4GB RAM, Gforce 8600M GT

    The default length for stills is settable in the FCP X  Preferences Window under the Edit tab.  I believe 4 sec is the number set as default when you got the program.  One way you might be able to do it is to select all the clips in the timeline (pictures that is), then make them into a new compound clip.  Then select the compound clip and hit COMMAND R (for the re-timing frame to pop up).  Drag the retiming handle at near the top right (2 small vertical bars) of the selected compound clip to the length of time you want.  I tried this with retiming video clips made into a compound clip and it works, so I am thinking it will probably also work with stills.  Hope this helps.
    stephen

  • How to change duration of selected still image Clips?

    iMove is great in all its simplicity. However coming from the Windows (Pinnacle Studio) side I have yet a few mysteries to solve: Changing duration of a single still image clip is trivial, but it seems impossible to do the same operation selecting two or more clips. Did I miss anything? You can specify the duration and apply to all clips, but I have found no way to apply e.g. 4 sec duration to half of the 220 slides in my slideshow. Cmd+R on 100 still images seems like a fairly unintelligent approach. Hints, anyone?

    Hi
    Anybody?
    I'm having the same problem.
    I have 500 stills in my timeline (iMovie 06 HD) and there seems to be no way to change the duration of more than one still at a time.
    This cannot be right. Please tell me what I am missing!
    According to another thread about this issue, the answer was that after I select my group of stills in the timeline, I should be able to open "Media" and "Photos" in iMovie, and then set the stills duration settings that way.
    But the button "Show Photo Settings" is greyed out, so I am unable to set the group stills duration.
    Any help?
    PLEASE?

  • Can you change still clip duration default setting?

    I create wedding videos, and at the end of my movie I add about 100 still clips as edited highlights. In older versions of imovie you were able to alter the length of still clips created in the preferences to whatever time you wanted. In this newer (better?!?) version when I have created all my still clips I have to click on each one individually to alter the time duration. The default setting is 5 seconds and I can't find anywhere that you can change this. It takes me AGES to do this individually, anybody got any ideas of a better way? Cheers.

    I can't necessarily recommend this for it can lead to project corruption. It's possible to manually edit the text of the iMovie project file, changing the playtime duration of all your still clips to the duration you want.
    1. In iMovie, double-click on one of your still clips. Write down the name of its source file. Quit iMovie 6.
    2. In the Finder, make a duplicate of the project. Work on the duplicate.
    3. In the Finder, open the duplicate project package. (Control-click on the project icon and choose "Show Package Contents" from the popUp menu.)
    4. You'll see two iMovie project files loose in the window that opens, plus some folders. One of the project files has a tilde (~) in its name and one does not. Our goal is to edit the file that does NOT have the tilde. (The tilde file is type of backup.)
    5. Launch TextEdit. (In your Applications folder.) Drop the non-tilde project file onto the TextEdit icon in the Dock.
    6. Use TextEdit's search function to search for the string that defines the play-time of each still clip, now 5 seconds. For PAL, that string is "<integer>125</integer>". For NTSC, it is "<integer>150</integer>".)
    7. For each still, you want to change the 125 to some other number. For PAL, the number you want is 25 X the number of seconds to play.
    If the only clips in your project that play for 125 are your stills, you can safely use the Replace All command to replace all with the strings at the same time. Be sure to include the tags <integer> and </integer.
    If there are others that play for 5 seconds, you'll need to examine each clip individually, using the sample name you wrote down to see if the clip uses a similar name.
    8. Save the modified file and close that TextEdit window.
    9. Go back to the Finder and double-click on the project package to open it in iMovie 6. If everything worked as intended, all your stills should play with a new length.
    Karl

  • Can't adjust clip duration of still photos in iMovie '11

    Anyone having the same problem? I inserted a still photo in one of my projects in iMovie which has a a clip duration of 5s when added. I clicked the cogwheel icon then chose the inspector to adjust the duration. I've managed to changed it to 3s but after I clicked "Done", the clip duration is still under 5s.
    I didn't encountered this problem before in iMovie '10 and I've searched over at Google and found out that many iMovie '11 users have the same dilemma.
    Any workaround you can suggest? Thanks!

    "problems setting duration for still photos and transitions in iMovie '11"
    A number of people have experienced the same problem and written about it on discussions. Lots of difference solutions as well. If you search using the title quoted above, you can read the solution I found. It's more complicated than it should be. I've never had to fiddle as much with duration times for transitions and still photos. Nevertheless, the steps I have described work for me. You will also find the steps another reader offered that may work for you if all of your transitions are set for the same durations and all of the still photos are as well.

  • How can I change the duration of stills on Final Cut Pro X?

    Hello everyone.
    I need to change the duration of stills and I'm having a hard time doing that. I'm not interested in changing the default setting. The stills need different times, so I need to be able to manually alter the duration of each clip. Does anyone know how to do this?
    Thank you!

    http://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0.6/#ver9847ec25

  • Still Clip Duration

    I'm just starting to use Imovie HD, and i'm having problems editing the length of still clips. I can make them as short as i want, but can't make them longer by dragging in the editing bar. I looked in help, and where they tell you to double click the photo and change the duration, my window comes up with the duration un editable.
    Help!
    TIA!!

    Welcome to the forums.
    Double-clicking an original still will bring up a window with the clip's name, size, editable duration, etc. If you accidentally double-click an adjacent transition, the duration will not be editable in the window. If you applied the Ken Burns effect, the window also will not let you edit the duration. In both cases however, the duration can be changed by going back to the "source." Use the transition menu to change the transition, and use the Photo menu to adjust the duration of the Ken Burns effect.
    John

  • Hi i am currently editing clips in premiere pro cc but everytime i go to change the speed not the duration of a clip it will not let me select it - also when i go to effect controls it will not let me select time mapping? please help

    Hi i am currently editing clips in premiere pro cc but everytime i go to change the speed not the duration of a clip it will not let me select it - also when i go to effect controls it will not let me select time mapping? please help

    savannahp
    What version of Premiere Elements and on what computer operating system?
    Please review the following that I excerpted from an older post here regarding Adobe's PRE_help comments about Hollywood Effect and mention of
    Red Noir. Does any of the following apply to any of what is happening to you.
    - Whenever I try to add an effect from the Hollywood Looks menu, it brings up a warning that all my previous effects on that clip will be deleted. However it will let me add those same effects *after* applying Hollywood Looks.
    This is because of how the Hollywood Looks are designed to be used. Since these are effect presets (multiple effects in combination) that result in a specific "look"; they are best applied in isolation. If any previous effect is applied and we still allow a Hollywood effect to be applied, we will not be able to see what the effect does clearly. For e.g. if you already have a Gaussian Blur effect applied to your clip, and then we allow you to apply the "Red Noir" Hollywood effect, the fact that the "Reds" in the scenes will be highlighted and the others converted to B/W will not be clearly seen since the content is already blurred out. So any previously applied effects was designed to be removed. This holds good even if you apply a Hollywood look "on top of" another one. The previous one will be replaced. Having said that, you can customize the look further by either tweaking an already applied filter or by adding a newer effect on top. That is the reason you can apply an effect on top of the Hollywood Effects and not vice versa.
    Please review and consider and then we can proceed from there if necessary.
    ATR

  • Setting Duration of Photos (still clips) in iMovie '11 Does Not Work

    Howdy -
    I realize there are already similar posts to this one, but so far as I could tell, most of them involve (& focus on) transitions, whereas my issue is strictly with setting the duration for which a photo is held in iMovie.
    Effectively, I am trying to get a 'stop motion' feel from iMovie. I deselected the auto-apply 'Ken Burns' to all photo imports in the project preferences and figured I would edit the photo duration afterwards, given that the shortest possible duration in the project preferences is 1s, which is much too long. That is where I run into trouble: the "duration" field is acting up a great deal - sometimes it won't even respond to my entering different numbers, other times it will. Sometimes when it does respond to my typing numbers, it won't let me type anything in the decimal position. When it does let me type something in the decimal position, e.g. 0.2s, when I hit enter, it re-sets the time to 2.0s. I've tried different formats for entering time (0:00:2; 0:00:02; 0,2; with & w/out 's' etc) - all to no avail.
    I'm very curious to know if anyone else has reported this problem, & if so what the solution is.
    In case anyone else is having this problem, I did find a workaround:
         1. Import your photos as necessary
         2. Select one photo and manually crop to desired time scale (e.g. 0.3s)
         3. "Trim to selection"
         4. Select that same clip & bring up the window for editing the duration, check the "apply to all stills" box.
         5. voila - amazingly this works.
    Although this is a perfectly easy workaround, I'm a little disconcerted by the fact that iMovie won't repond properly & would be very interested to understand why.
    Thank you in advance for your help.
    Kind regards,
    Rax.

    Hi Rax,
    This may not help, but in iMovie Preferences there is an option to display time down to the frame level. So, rather than entering time as a decimal, you enter each time component separated by a colon. So, 2.5 seconds would be entered as 2:15 - that's 2 seconds and 15 frames (for NTSC or 30 fps formatted video).
    See this screenshot:
    As I mentioned, this may not help. At times I've also had trouble adjusting the duration of stills, even though I have my preferences set to display time at the frame level. Transitions can cause issues with stills duration. In most cases, a transition can be no longer than half the duration of the shortest clip on either side.
    Notwithstanding the transition methodology, my feeling is that there is a bug in iMovie that causes problems with stills duration in certain circumstances. This applies to both iMovie '09 and iMovie '11 (also possibly '08).
    John

Maybe you are looking for